as in dizzy
having a feeling of being whirled about and in danger of falling down
the blood donor started to feel a little woozy after rising too quickly from the cot
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Recent Examples of woozy
Propulsive percussion and infectious syncopations are in ample supply, but so are weirder, woozier moments keyed to the humid psychedelia of Miami after hours.
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Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 9 Dec. 2025
Despite the political specificity of the family history unearthed here, the script presumes a level of profundity that’s just not there in the movie’s ponderous silences and woozy montages.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
The novel is set in 1984, but the plot keeps sliding backward into the sixties, in woozy reveries that engulf Zoyd like quicksand.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Bond markets got woozy in response to Trump’s trade policies earlier this year, and the administration course-corrected as a result.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 14 July 2025
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Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 9 Dec. 2025
Despite the political specificity of the family history unearthed here, the script presumes a level of profundity that’s just not there in the movie’s ponderous silences and woozy montages.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
The novel is set in 1984, but the plot keeps sliding backward into the sixties, in woozy reveries that engulf Zoyd like quicksand.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Bond markets got woozy in response to Trump’s trade policies earlier this year, and the administration course-corrected as a result.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woozy
Adjective
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By applying lower‑body compression, the garment helps counteract a common condition called orthostatic intolerance that causes astronauts to faint or feel dizzy following an extended mission in microgravity.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2026
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The caller hit their head and felt dizzy.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Eurodance with the bass-heavy Swedish genre EPA-dunk and 3Cha—the giddy electronic dance music from Thaiboy’s home region of Isaan in Thailand—to form a new kind of globalist hyperpop.—
Harry Thorfinn-George,
Pitchfork,
27 Apr. 2026
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Their struggle has upturned the tabletop candle that illuminates the scene and any moment will surely extinguish it, effacing the giddy pattern formed by the writhing bodies and glowing, veiny bladder skin.—
Julian Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The magnetar was initially surrounded by a whirling disk of matter, funneling from its inner edge onto the stellar remnant.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Woozy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woozy. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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